Code Red game coding workshops

Places are still available for 15-18 year-olds and teachers or adults working with students to develop computer coding skills!

Come along to Timaru Library and learn about online game coding and strategy for free 

during the school holidays. 

We’re running workshops to provide a technology starter using online games.  

Check out the registration details and workshop dates and enrol now!

The Warlock's Child competitions

To celebrate the first three books of The Warlock’s Child being released, Ford Street
Publishing is running a competition for readers fifteen years and younger.

ARTWORK: The best colour illustration of a dragon from any of the first three books in the series -The Burning Sea, Dragonfall Mountain and The Iron Claw - all coming to your library soon

STORY: The best story of 500 words or less featuring any two characters from the first three books in the series -The Burning Sea, Dragonfall Mountain and The Iron Claw.

PRIZES (in both categories):
First Prize: A leatherbound dragon notebook (just the thing to carry on quests), an autographed set of
all six books of The Warlock’s Child, and publication of the winning artwork and story in ‘OzKidsinPrint’. This entry will include the art and story in the magazine’s own story and art competitions.
See www.ozkidsinprint.com.au. (*)
Second Prize: A Celtic dragon backpack
Third Prize: A dragon t-shirt

DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted (that is postmarked or emailed) by the 28th of July, 2015.
Submissions may be electronic or postal, but submissions arriving after 1st August 2015 cannot be
considered.
Email: ue485@hotkey.net.au
Postal: Ford Street Publishing
162 Hoddle Street
Abbotsford
Victoria 3067
Australia

RESULTS: Winners will be announced at Ford Street Publishing on 10th of August, 2015.

RULES and further information at Ford Street Publishing

Best NZ teens' book announced!

Last year's best NZ books for teens have been announced!  The LIANZA Children’s Book Awards were presented this month.  Winner of the  2015 Young Adult Fiction Award is Night Vision by Ella West.

Viola was born with a genetic condition that makes sunlight deadly. She is used to seeing hidden things through her night-vision goggles, but one night she sees something that could get her into a whole lot of trouble. A heart-thumping thriller that will leave you breathless.Read more from the publisher Allen & Unwin. The Young Adult Fiction Award finalists were: 

•              I am Rebecca by Fleur Beale

•              The Red Suitcase by Jill Harris

•              Singing Home the Whale by Mandy Hager

•              Recon Team Angel: Vengeance by Brian Falkner 

All these are great reads!  Check them out from Timaru, Temuka or Geraldine Libraries, or to read Night Vision or Recon Team Angel: Vengeance as eBooks go to our eplatform. 

Enjoy!

Be in to Win a Tablet!!!

Be in to win a tablet each month!!!  Enter the draw simply by downloading the Wheelers ePlatform app and borrowing an ebook. First you need to be a Timaru District Libraries member with up-to-date membership, then go to your appstore - Apple, Google Play or Amazon, and download the free Wheelers ePlatform app. Choose Timaru District Libraries from the list then log in and select your books. Contact your library at Timaru, Temuka or Geraldine if you need some help. Good luck!